About

Lesley Anderson is a multi-media artist currently living and working in Victoria, BC, Canada. She has called the West Coast of Canada home for most of her life, studying at Emily Carr University in Vancouver and working as a printmaker at an etching studio on Granville Island. She spent several years in Montreal and abroad in France while completing her Master of Fine Arts with Concordia University.

Her work is informed by her materials, the formal properties of painting and the opticality of the medium. The way paint moves and behaves has a bearing on the direction of her work, as does the elemental, geometric, experiential and illusionistic properties of painting. Her work is a meeting of intention and chance.

“I think of my pictures as dramas… They begin an unknown adventure in an unknown space… Ideas and plans that existed in the mind at the start were simply the doorway through which one left the world in which they occur”